Mirabai Chanu created history winning India’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympics when she clinched silver in women’s 49kg weightlifting event on Saturday. Chanu thus becomes the second ever Indian female weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win an Olympic weightlifting medal.

Malleswari had won a bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and thus became the first ever female from India to win a medal at the quadrennial event.